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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
- 0:02Speaker 1: We've got a full house here today in our community
- 0:06Speaker 1: connection right here on K one, the one you trust.
- 0:09Speaker 1: We've got the hook from Nine Minds in here. I
- 0:11Speaker 1: understand none of the mines are with us.
- 0:14Speaker 2: I'll wait a minute here.
- 0:16Speaker 1: I made a mistake, all right there, Caleb, Caleb Gordon
- 0:20Speaker 1: is with us here.
- 0:20Speaker 2: How are you doing there, young man? You brought a
- 0:22Speaker 2: whole lot of friends today.
- 0:23Speaker 3: My friend, I'm doing better than I deserve, so therefore
- 0:25Speaker 3: I'm outstanding.
- 0:26Speaker 2: There you go.
- 0:27Speaker 4: How are things with you? Sir?
- 0:28Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what it's great. Tell us a
- 0:31Speaker 1: little bit about Nine Minds. We've got ribbon cutting coming
- 0:33Speaker 1: up here, but let's tell everybody.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Why we're cutting ribbon in there.
- 0:37Speaker 4: Absolutely so.
- 0:37Speaker 3: The Nine Minds is an IT infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI
- 0:41Speaker 3: solutions company. We handle where your one stop shop for
- 0:44Speaker 3: all things.
- 0:46Speaker 4: IT related. And this is the owner, Craig and Grace Machinko.
- 0:51Speaker 3: And then you've got Brad and you've got Levi. Brad
- 0:56Speaker 3: they were we're not the we're not the Nine Minds.
- 1:01Speaker 4: But I'll let Craig tell you about the Nine Minds.
- 1:06Speaker 1: I was shocked when I heard this, but then I
- 1:08Speaker 1: started smiling because I thought that was a great name.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:11Speaker 5: Well, you know with the intrusion of AI and it's
- 1:15Speaker 5: a simulation of humankind we achieve, we strive for this
- 1:20Speaker 5: greater consciousness we call the Nine Minds.
- 1:23Speaker 4: That's completely not ad at all.
- 1:26Speaker 5: See No, actually, so the Nine Minds is an homage
- 1:34Speaker 5: to Grace's and my family.
- 1:35Speaker 4: We're a family company.
- 1:37Speaker 5: We have nine children, and we wanted to honor the
- 1:41Speaker 5: blessings that God has given to us by reflecting that in.
- 1:44Speaker 4: The name of the company that we founded. So wonderful. Yeah,
- 1:48Speaker 4: I like that.
- 1:49Speaker 2: So now we are going to set up shop here, correct.
- 1:53Speaker 4: Yes, so we were.
- 1:55Speaker 3: We joined the Chamber last month and the and the
- 2:00Speaker 3: good folks that the Chamber are setting us up with
- 2:03Speaker 3: a ribbon cutting today. We're doing at the old courthouse
- 2:05Speaker 3: there on Archway properties right here on Frank Phillips today
- 2:09Speaker 3: at four point thirty.
- 2:10Speaker 4: And so we just wanted to let folks know.
- 2:12Speaker 3: We're here to help any businesses that need help with
- 2:16Speaker 3: their IT infrastructure, their cybersecurity, which most people don't realize
- 2:20Speaker 3: they need cybersecurity until they need it, and then when
- 2:24Speaker 3: they need it, you're like, so, yeah, I have made.
- 2:28Speaker 1: That noise by the way, when I've been invaded on
- 2:32Speaker 1: the cyber side, So you know, there it's all kinds
- 2:35Speaker 1: of very clever people that are out to get into
- 2:39Speaker 1: your computer for lord knows what reason, but usually to
- 2:42Speaker 1: try to find your money.
- 2:44Speaker 3: They're gonna find grand grandkid pictures online, so there's yeah,
- 2:48Speaker 3: that's that's all they'll find online.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Well, I sent seven to college. You're gonna find a
- 2:53Speaker 1: bunch of Maud's flat out of my wallet. But you know,
- 2:56Speaker 1: the thing is is, though it's a qui an invasion,
- 3:01Speaker 1: they don't come in make a whole lot of noise
- 3:03Speaker 1: mess up your house like a regular you know, burglar.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Would they just come in and just quietly steal your life.
- 3:11Speaker 4: And it's true.
- 3:12Speaker 3: We we've had that issue happened with some clients that
- 3:15Speaker 3: we've had, and we have to go in and we've
- 3:16Speaker 3: got to plug the holes and and help fix the problems.
- 3:20Speaker 3: Brad here, he's our he's our resident cybersecurity ext You know,
- 3:26Speaker 3: it's the quiet ones you gotta worry about.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's gonna he's one of just walks around
- 3:30Speaker 1: with smile in a club.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I'm going to fix it. You see a variety of things,
- 3:35Speaker 2: don't you absolutely? Yea.
- 3:36Speaker 6: Oftentimes, you know, the threat actor will come in, he'll
- 3:40Speaker 6: camp out, you know, undetected, trying to make sure that
- 3:43Speaker 6: you know, no one knows that he's there.
- 3:44Speaker 4: He's analyzing things, trying to figure.
- 3:46Speaker 6: Out exactly who is who and going through the entire
- 3:49Speaker 6: environment to figure out, you know, what is the most
- 3:51Speaker 6: damage I can create or what's the most money I
- 3:53Speaker 6: could actually steal from this?
- 3:54Speaker 2: Wow?
- 3:55Speaker 1: Incredible. I got a question. Are the are the kids
- 3:59Speaker 1: part of the company too? Are they working with you
- 4:01Speaker 1: now hand in hand?
- 4:02Speaker 4: Absolutely?
- 4:03Speaker 2: How do you manage that? Well?
- 4:05Speaker 4: They needed jobs?
- 4:07Speaker 2: The smart mom, I can't keep mine home. Good work there.
- 4:19Speaker 4: Yeah, it's exciting to you know.
- 4:21Speaker 5: And and uh, you know the rest of our company
- 4:23Speaker 5: we really try to you know, infuse that that whole
- 4:26Speaker 5: culture of being connected you know, with our our.
- 4:31Speaker 4: Employees and with our customers.
- 4:33Speaker 5: You know, we really uh we really strive for you know,
- 4:37Speaker 5: a deep relationship understanding you know, what our customers need,
- 4:41Speaker 5: being their trusted you know, partner and advisor and uh
- 4:45Speaker 5: and really getting to know them and their business personally
- 4:48Speaker 5: and taking it personally you know, for us to help
- 4:50Speaker 5: them be successful.
- 4:51Speaker 1: So you know you're you, you're doing it the way
- 4:54Speaker 1: that it was done for centuries. On relationships. Yes, uh,
- 4:58Speaker 1: some folks just see the this is a mark, an
- 5:02Speaker 1: account a number. You're doing this the old fashioned way
- 5:06Speaker 1: with heart, compassion and genuine care relationships. That's you looked
- 5:11Speaker 1: up with some pretty good folks.
- 5:15Speaker 3: I've been in the larger corporate space and this is
- 5:19Speaker 3: genuinely a family committed group that does doesn't look at
- 5:24Speaker 3: their clients as.
- 5:25Speaker 4: Just a number. Like we know their names and we
- 5:28Speaker 4: we talked to them.
- 5:29Speaker 7: We we on a regular basis, we go eat with them,
- 5:33Speaker 7: we fellowship with them, and it's it's a it's a
- 5:35Speaker 7: real focus to try to make sure that we're we're
- 5:39Speaker 7: you know, the idea of the biblical idea.
- 5:41Speaker 4: Of treat somebody the way you want to be treated.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Sure, and and so that's that's our mind, that's our homage.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Well, well, I've got to tell you it sounds like
- 5:50Speaker 1: you're going to be in business forever, which is.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Generational. You know, you've got you pass it. They've got
- 5:59Speaker 2: a lot of passing down to But but this is
- 6:03Speaker 2: really going to work out. Fine.
- 6:05Speaker 1: We welcome to town. I know you came from what
- 6:08Speaker 1: Texas is down by Austin.
- 6:11Speaker 5: We don't have to tell your audience from Texas.
- 6:14Speaker 2: That's okay. We don't get that silly stuff. That's usually
- 6:18Speaker 2: a little further down.
- 6:19Speaker 4: Caleb's Oklahoma. Caleb is Bartlesville. Yeah, just just go to Caleb.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Okay.
- 6:23Speaker 5: That's why we have him as our head of business.
- 6:26Speaker 5: He's the Oklahoma face for a Texas.
- 6:29Speaker 2: Company, Bloomer Sooner. Okay.
- 6:31Speaker 5: You know, in reality, many of us in the company
- 6:35Speaker 5: actually come from Alaska originally. And we you know, we
- 6:39Speaker 5: love our Texas and Oklahoma, you know.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Two biggest states in the Union. Guys, go big or
- 6:45Speaker 2: go home, right.
- 6:48Speaker 5: We know a lot of Texans and Oklahoma's that come
- 6:50Speaker 5: up to Alaska and work in the oil fields. And
- 6:53Speaker 5: you know, so we we feel like we share a
- 6:56Speaker 5: common culture with you guys here.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Imagine so Alaska great place to chill.
- 7:06Speaker 2: You know they do, Caleb.
- 7:08Speaker 1: They have summer up there, and I'll ask if it
- 7:10Speaker 1: lands on a Saturday, they have a picnic.
- 7:16Speaker 2: They can tell you that.
- 7:18Speaker 1: And folks that go to the beach at Anchorage are
- 7:21Speaker 1: about once a decade.
- 7:23Speaker 2: That about true. Good about eighties.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Yeah, don't freeze to death chick one toe in it
- 7:29Speaker 1: turns blue. It's like, okay, we're good, We're good.
- 7:32Speaker 4: Well, this is great.
- 7:34Speaker 2: First of all, welcome to town.
- 7:35Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 7:36Speaker 1: And we can always use a business like this, not
- 7:39Speaker 1: only on the local scene, but on the national scene.
- 7:42Speaker 1: There's so many what they call black hats out there
- 7:46Speaker 1: and somebody in some of the jokers, they'll say, actually,
- 7:48Speaker 1: I'm a white hat. I'm just doing this so you
- 7:51Speaker 1: know that you need to fix something. I'm like, be quiet.
- 7:55Speaker 1: And they cause a little bit of trouble too, don't they.
- 7:59Speaker 2: But that.
- 8:02Speaker 1: I'm surprised you sleep, right, I'm surprised you sleep because
- 8:07Speaker 1: very well, because you know, about the time everything gets patched,
- 8:13Speaker 1: taken care of, locked up tight as a port Knox,
- 8:18Speaker 1: somebody finds the key and that boy, I'll tell you whatever, vigilant.
- 8:22Speaker 5: That's That's something I'm glad you mentioned the national, you
- 8:27Speaker 5: know versus local thing, because we actually we serve customers.
- 8:31Speaker 5: We support customer sites around six hundred nationwide.
- 8:36Speaker 4: We do it.
- 8:37Speaker 5: We do a tremendous amount of work with our customers
- 8:40Speaker 5: in their cloud environments and throughout the country.
- 8:44Speaker 4: We are we are a you know.
- 8:46Speaker 5: A local and small business. Uh you know, culture, but
- 8:50Speaker 5: we have a national footprint in terms of the services
- 8:53Speaker 5: we deliver.
- 8:54Speaker 1: So that's great. That's great. And one of the six
- 8:57Speaker 1: hundred places is going to be right here in Bartleton.
- 9:00Speaker 1: So when you get open the doors.
- 9:02Speaker 4: Well, I mean we're open for shop now.
- 9:04Speaker 3: The official the official ribbon cutting is today at four
- 9:07Speaker 3: thirty four thirty down at the historic Courthouse.
- 9:10Speaker 4: And then afterwards we want to invite everybody up to
- 9:12Speaker 4: the third floor. We'll have some snacks and some some.
- 9:15Speaker 3: You know, things to eat on and munch on and
- 9:16Speaker 3: drink on, and so we want to have everybody coming
- 9:19Speaker 3: high five and shake.
- 9:20Speaker 4: Hands and kiss babies and all that kind of fun stuff.
- 9:22Speaker 2: You picked a pretty cool building.
- 9:24Speaker 1: They did a lot of renovations on the inside. It's
- 9:26Speaker 1: got a lot of history to it. But wow you
- 9:30Speaker 1: good on you.
- 9:32Speaker 2: We can just wave at you from here.
- 9:35Speaker 4: Where we want to invite everybody out to come be
- 9:39Speaker 4: a part of that.
- 9:40Speaker 1: That's at four Everybody's courthouse at the old Courthouse. Where
- 9:45Speaker 1: do we find you on the World Wide Web? The
- 9:48Speaker 1: safest website on planet beyond.
- 9:52Speaker 5: The nine minds dot com.
- 9:55Speaker 1: That's it easy to remember, It's easy to remember. So
- 9:59Speaker 1: if you're looking for ways to secure your environment online,
- 10:05Speaker 1: your online environment.
- 10:07Speaker 4: These are the folks to get a hold of.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Get of course, you know, get to know them a
- 10:11Speaker 1: little bit because they want to know you and it's
- 10:14Speaker 1: going to be a good relationship once you get started.
- 10:17Speaker 1: And of course any questions they can answer it I
- 10:21Speaker 1: know darn well this guy can.
- 10:26Speaker 2: And if you can't, he knows somebody who can, real quick.
- 10:30Speaker 1: But this is really great, great cybersecurity right here in
- 10:34Speaker 1: our hometown and nationwide. I want to thank you all
- 10:38Speaker 1: for coming in today and good luck this afternoon with
- 10:42Speaker 1: the ribbon cutting, have yourself way too much fun, and
- 10:46Speaker 1: then we'll start sending people your way home customers, right,
- 10:50Speaker 1: that's what it's all about, all right, build some relationship
- 10:53Speaker 1: with you. Thank you folks for being with us today.
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